Word: unite
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...father was a company commander in an armored division, or what was left of it, somewhere on the eastern front. He had gone off to war at the age of 27, served as an infantryman during the blitzkrieg against France, and in 1941 was transferred to an armored unit in the east when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. We saw Father rarely, during brief furloughs and on medical leaves after he was wounded, the first time in 1942, then a year later at Kursk, during the largest tank battle of the war. We missed him, but that...
...Harvard's reaction was to expand the guard unit there would not be so much concern. Amazingly, Harvard appears to be the only place in the country cutting back on security. The security force, which has recently been reduced by 10 percent through attrition, is now believed to be considering cuts that would reduce the department by another 15 percent...
...shooting case has been assigned to Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sheila W. Sawyer and Timothy Q. Feeley, the chief of the major crimes unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office. Sawyer said last week that the trial date may be pushed back from June 5 because of motions filed by Smith's attorneys...
...insidious danger: America's growing fascination and familiarity with bombs. In real life and in the movies, exploding devices have become commonplace. Joseph Grubisic, the commander of the Chicago police department's bomb squad, has seen an increase in bomb use by Cook County gangs and drug rings. His unit coined the term MacGyver bombs to identify a class of homemade devices he believes were inspired by the TV series. "We get a dozen or so a year,'' he says...
...Russian Federation, and what happens in Chechnya happens on the territory of a single state -- the Russian Federation. You might recall that in 1787 the population of Wyoming Valley sought to secede from Pennsylvania and form its own state. The executive council answered that challenge with orders to a unit of the state's militia to arrest their leader. We found ourselves in a similar situation under different circumstances in different times. [Chechen rebel leader Jokhar] Dudayev had launched an armed rebellion with the goal of destroying the integrity of the Russian Federation. Hence coercion by the state was used...